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- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!kevinh
- From: kevinh@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch (kevinh)
- Subject: Re: MERCEDES MOTORCYCLE????
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.073849.11245@hasler.ascom.ch>
- Originator: kevinh@nath
- Sender: news@hasler.ascom.ch
- Reply-To: kevinh@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch
- Organization: Ascom Hasler AG
- References: <92317.55979.L629159@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> <69602@cup.portal.com> <1992Nov18.173321.18408@ttinews.tti.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:38:49 GMT
- Lines: 13
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- In article <1992Nov18.173321.18408@ttinews.tti.com>, paulb@harley.tti.com (Paul Blumstein) writes:
- |> Daimler invented the motorcycle in 1885. (The car was
- |> invented by him in 1886). Dr. Rudolf Diesel didn't get around
- |> to inventing the diesel engine until 1894.
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- Not that this has anything to do with motorbikes.... but Diesel himself was
- quoted as saying he didn't invent the type of combustion engine we know
- call a diesel - although he was one of the early workers with this type
- of engine and it was, for some reason, named after him.
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- kevinh@hasler.ascom.ch
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